ark and rar

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> > In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9
> >> > it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the
> >> > unrar package. Am I missing something?
> >> 
> >> .rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is
> >> proprietary technology and non-free.  It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
> > 
> > I repeat: I installed the unrar package (from Livna as it happens). Ark
> > used to work with .rar files on F8 and now it doesn't. I'm assuming that
> > Ark used the unrar package but of course maybe it used to have its own
> > internal implementation and this has now been withdrawn because of
> > licensing, I don't know.
> > 
> > The only thing I ever used Ark for was .rar as I can handle tar, tgz,
> > zip, gzip, bzip etc. on my own.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> You can install unrar and handle it on your own, right?

As I've already said (twice!) I did install unrar. I'm simply stating
that there's a bug in Ark.

poc